We’ll explain 「駕鶴成仙」 clearly, including its application and pinyin in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「駕鶴成仙」.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「駕鶴成仙」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

A euphemism for death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jià hè chéng xiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ga3 hok2 sing4 sin1

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